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William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878-1944); Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884-1970). La coppia divorziò nel marzo 1895, in un'epoca in cui il divorzio era raro tra l'élite, e ha ricevuto un grande assegno di mantenimento al di sopra dei $ 10 milioni. Le cause del divorzio sono state accuse di adulterio nei confronti di Vanderbilt.
William Kissam Vanderbilt II (Jr.), dit « Willie K. », né le 2 mars 1878 à New York et mort le 8 janvier 1944 dans la même ville (à 65 ans), était entre autres un pilote automobile et un skipper américain, ayant aussi eu un temps quelques intérêts dans le monde hippique.
23 de sept. de 2018 · Born in 1878, William Kissam Vanderbilt II was the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the fabled Commodore, who had first built the family's staggering fortune through steamship and railroad lines. Willie K. did his turn as a rail executive, too, serving for a time as president of the New York Central. He married a woman whose father had ...
In 1878, Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt began building a lavish, wooden 110-room home known as Idle Hour, on a 900-acre (3.6 km 2) estate on the Connetquot River. The building, initially completed in 1882, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt of Hunt & Hunt (an American who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris), [a] continuously ...
Idle Hour. 150 Idle Hour Boulevard, Oakdale, Long Island, New York. Built in 1900, for William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849-1920). After the original Idlehour burned down in 1899, Vanderbilt wasted no time in employing the son of its architect, Richard Howland Hunt, to build him this L-shape Beaux-Arts mansion slightly closer to the Connetquot River.
William Kissam Vanderbilt ( New York, 12 december 1849 – Parijs 22 juli 1920) was een lid van de steenrijke Amerikaanse familie van Nederlandse afkomst Vanderbilt. Hij was een bekend paardenfokker met welke dieren hij vele races won. Hij was de tweede zoon van William Henry Vanderbilt en erfde van hem het enorme vermogen van 55 miljoen dollar.
